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and for hot surfaces facing downward, or cold surfaces facing upward,
Fluid properties for Eqs. (5-38) to (5-40) should be evaluated at the film
temperature Tf = (Ts + Te)/2.
For rectangular cavities, the plate spacing between the two surfaces L is
the characteristic dimension that defines the Nusselt and Rayleigh
numbers. The temperature difference in the Rayleigh number, Ra L = T
gL3/ is T = TH - TC.
For a horizontal rectangular cavity heated from below, the onset of
advection requires RaL > 1708. Globe and Dropkin [J. Heat Transfer,
81, 2428 (1959)] propose the correlation
From (5-35) with Pr = 0.707, the Nusselt number is 240 and the average
heat transfer coefficient due to natural convection is
FORCED CONVECTION
Forced convection heat transfer is probably the most common mode in the
process industries. Forced flows may be internal or external. This subsection
briefly introduces correlations for estimating heat transfer coefficients for flows
in tubes and ducts; flows across plates, cylinders, and spheres; flows through
tube banks and packed beds; heat transfer to nonevaporating falling films; and
rotating surfaces.
Section 11 introduces several types of heat exchangers, design procedures,
overall heat-transfer coefficients, and mean temperature differences.
Flow in Round Tubes In addition to the Nusselt (NuD = hD/k)
and Prandtl (Pr = ) numbers introduced above, the key dimensionless
parameter for forced convection in round tubes of diameter D is the Reynolds
number Re = GD, where G is the mass velocity G =m . Ac and Ac is the crosssectional area Ac = D2/4. For internal flow in a tube or duct, the heat-transfer
coefficient is defined as
q = h(Ts Tb)
(5-44)
where Tb is the bulk or mean temperature at a given cross section and
Ts is the corresponding surface temperature.
For laminar flow (ReD < 2100) that is fully developed, both hydrodynamically
and thermally, the Nusselt number has a constant value. For a uniform wall
temperature, NuD = 3.66. For a uniform heat flux through the tube wall,
NuD = 4.36. In both cases, the thermal conductivity of the fluid in NuD is
evaluated at Tb. The distance x required for a fully developed laminar velocity
profile is given by [(xD)ReD] 0.05. The distance x required for fully developed
velocity and thermal profiles is obtained from [(x/D)(ReD Pr)] 0.05.
For large values of L, Eq. (5-45) approaches NuD = 3.66. Equation (5-45)
also applies to developing velocity and thermal profiles conditions if Pr
>>1. The properties in (5-45) are evaluated at the bulk mean
temperature
For a constant wall temperature with developing laminar velocity and
thermal profiles, the average Nusselt number is approximated by [Sieder
and Tate, Ind. Eng. Chem., 28, 1429 (1936)]
For fully developed flow in the transition region between laminar and
turbulent flow, and for fully developed turbulent flow, Gnielinskis [Int.
Chem. Eng., 16, 359 (1976)] equation is recommended
where 0.5 < Pr < 105, 2300 < ReD < 106, K = (Prb/Prs)0.11 for liquids
(0.05 < Prb/Prs < 20), and K = (Tb/Ts)0.45 for gases (0.5 < Tb/Ts < 1.5).
The factor K corrects for variable property effects. For smooth tubes,
the Fanning friction factor f is given by
In this case, the properties are evaluated at the bulk mean temperature per
(5-46). More complicated and comprehensive predictions of fully developed
turbulent convection are available in Churchill and Zajic [AIChE J., 48, 927
(2002)] and Yu, Ozoe, and Churchill [Chem. Eng. Science, 56, 1781
(2001)].
For fully developed turbulent flow of liquid metals, the Nusselt number
depends on the wall boundary condition. For a constant wall temperature
[Notter and Sleicher, Chem. Eng. Science, 27, 2073 (1972)],
while for a uniform wall heat flux
In both cases the properties are evaluated at Tb and 0.004 < Pr < 0.01
and 104 < ReD < 106. Entrance effects for turbulent flow with simultaneously
developing velocity and thermal profiles can be significant when L/D < 10.
Shah and Bhatti correlated entrance effects for gases (Pr 1) to give an
equation for the average Nusselt number in the entrance region (in Kaka,
Shah, and Aung, eds., Handbook of Single-Phase Convective Heat Transfer,
Chap. 3, Wiley-Interscience, 1987).
where NuD is the fully developed Nusselt number and the constants C
and n are given in Table 5-3 (Ebadian and Dong, Chap. 5 of Rohsenow,
Hartnett, and Cho, Handbook of Heat Transfer, 3d ed., McGraw-Hill,
1998, p. 5.31). The tube entrance configuration determines the values
of C and n as shown in Table 5-3.
Example 6: Turbulent Internal Flow Air at 300 K, 1 bar, and 0.05 kg/s
enters a channel of a plate-type heat exchanger (Mills, Heat Transfer, 2d
ed., Prentice-Hall, 1999) that measures 1 cm wide, 0.5 m high, and 0.8 m
long.
The walls are at 600 K, and the mass flow rate is 0.05 kg/s. The entrance
has a 90 edge. We want to estimate the exit temperature of the air. Our
approach will use (5-48) to estimate the average heat-transfer coefficient,
followed by application of (5-28) to calculate the exit temperature. We
assume ideal gas behavior and an exit temperature of 500 K. The
estimated bulk mean temperature of the air is, by (5-46), 400 K. At this
temperature, the properties of the air are Pr = 0.690, = 2.301 105
kg(ms), k = 0.0338 W(mK), and cp = 1014 J(kgK).
We start by calculating the hydraulic diameter Dh = 4Ac/p. The crosssectional area for flow Ac is 0.005 m2, and the wetted perimeter p is 1.02
m. The hydraulic diameter Dh = 0.01961 m. The Reynolds number is
The flow is in the transition region, and Eqs. (5-49) and (5-48) apply:
f = 0.25(0.790 ln ReDh 1.64)2 = 0.25(0.790 ln 8521 1.64)2 =
0.008235
Entrance effects are included by using (5-53) for an open end, 90 edge
Coiled Tubes